5 NOVEMBER 1904, Page 8

The City at the Pole. By Gordon Stables, R.N. (Grant

Richards. 5s.)—There is scarcely any need to describe a book by Dr. Stables. It is sure to be full of adventure, in which the domestic element Is represented as much as possible. Some explorers would hesi- tate to take two girls on a journey to the Pole. Yet our adven- turers do it, with admirable consequences. The young ladies are ultimately suited with the best of husbands, a result which does not always happen to the stay-at-homes. The lucky leader of the expedition actually sees the city that is "behind the North Wind,"—a sort of Damascus, it would seem, the place which 3fahomet thought too dangerously beautiful for the faithful believer to venture into.